Zoku Owarimonogatari

Graduation day is finally here, marking the end of Koyomi Araragi's eccentric high school life full of peculiar relationships with otherworldly beings.

However, Araragi is unexpectedly absorbed into his own bathroom mirror and trapped inside a bizarre world where everything he knows is completely reversed—the haughty Karen Araragi is shorter than usual, poker-faced Yotsugi Ononoki is brimming with emotion, and cute ghost girl Mayoi Hachikuji is a grown woman! But not everything is as it seems.

Zoku Owarimonogatari details the story of Araragi's endeavors in this new world as he struggles to return to his home and understand the nature of this bizarre dimension.

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Araragi, Koyomi Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Senjougahara, Hitagi ing

Saitou, Chiwa Japanese

Oshino, Shinobu ing

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

Hanekawa, Tsubasa ing

Horie, Yui Japanese

Hachikuji, Mayoi ing

Katou, Emiri Japanese

Kanbaru, Suruga ing

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Sengoku, Nadeko ing

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Oshino, Ougi ing

Mizuhashi, Kaori Japanese

Ononoki, Yotsugi ing

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Araragi, Karen ing

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Ishikawa, Tatsuya Producer

Matsushita, Takuya Producer

Kamiji, Tomoyo Assistant Producer

Yamatani, Nakuru Assistant Producer

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May 4, 2025

RealJellyTak

Recommended

I am not the biggest fan of the Monogatari series. It's a series that is never gonna be the most relatable thing in the world, and it's fanservice scenes will forever stop me from loving it more. What I will say, is that it holds one of greatest written characters depicting the coming of age in fiction ever, with an incredibly well written side cast very few anime have. The way this ends in Zoku is the most mature and important message to give to a teenager and their outlook on life. It really is special and can be life-affirming to so many. When you ... put this together with amazing visuals, presentation, music integrated into an unbelievable adaptation, you get one of the greatest stories of all time.

I will say it again, I am not the biggest fan of the Monogatari series. It's a series that is never gonna be the most relatable thing in the world, and it's fanservice scenes will forever stop me from loving it more. Yet it is an experience I would recommend to anyone who loves stories, a once in a lifetime experience. It really is that special.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Mar 19, 2022

petalferrous

Mixed Feelings

I've seen enough anime with great setup and no payoff by now to not get my hopes up, but I'm still sorry to say that my biggest initial response to Zoku Owarimonogatari is disappointment, the gradual revelation that there was nothing behind the curtain. I suppose the theme that youth is full of disappointments and loose ends that will never truly be resolved isn't totally uninteresting, but that point was already made more succinctly and elegantly in Nisemonogatari.

As always, I find myself tempted to give Nisio more credit than he probably deserves by positing that the fact that there's nothing behind the curtain is ... part of the point, but...why spend three hours on it, then? Just to troll the audience? (And why bother finally introducing one of the most important and consequential characters in the series for...basically no reason?) If this were actually the end of the series it would be extremely unfulfilling, but given that Nisio did apparently have the post-high school arcs planned all along maybe there's still something there in Off Season and Monster Season? I guess we'll find out in 2030 or so.

I liked seeing Koyomi terrified and embarrassed by Mayoi and the spoiler character, because it's actually not a side of him we've really seen before. The Tsukihi face-washing scene feels like a de-sexualized, humiliating inversion of Nisemonogatari's famous toothbrush scene and is actually pretty disturbing, but...like so much else here, it doesn't seem to have really had a point.

Also I know Nisio loves giving Hitagi no screentime but couldn't we at least get some more Hanekawa??? Please?

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 4, 2019

nightcrawlercyp

Not Recommended

So the only part I actually enjoyed where the last 5-10 minutes with Senjougahara. The problem is that:
1. they miss the whole thing that made Monogatari a cult anime: the mystery, the puzzle, the interesting interjections. There is none of that. It is all so boring that you feel the dread and want for it to be over
2. All the "reveals" are already well known by both us and Araragi from the previous installments but he seems to have forgotten them for no reason
3. The ending made absolutely no sense and made Araragi way too powerful

In a word the show looks like a bad fanfic ... . There are times when story tellers lack inspiration and try to fake it. They produce a lot of low quality material like this one. A similar thing can be said for Stephen King recent novels.

Basically if you are the person that accepts a show only because it has you favorite characters and is created by the same creators as the previous work you may like this. But if you are someone that cares for quality and asks questions and wants something actually interesting you will find it as a way too long filler. If this would have been one episode 20-30 minutes I would have been ok with it. But stretching it to 6 20 min episodes is way too much for a filler.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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